Susan Hated Literature

Aug 28 2007

Come down here and chum some of this shit

Dudes! Seriously, this is like the best thing eveh! Seriously. Totally even.

Okay, so the shaaak/head thing isn’t the best in the world, but still, is this not the reason for the invention of this here intertubes thing?

Tags: Jaws, lol, vidjo

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Apr 12 2006

And if you can exhume them

Published by Fence under Irishify

This probably won’t be funny to anyone but Irish people, but those lads over at Langerland have surpassed themselves with this wonderful cartoon, The Rising. Fuckin’ morons.

Link stolen from TCAL

Tags: 1916 Rising, Langerland, lol, The Rising

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Mar 15 2006

I sell to leftists, and rightists. I sell to pacifists, but they’re not the most regular customers

Published by Fence under Irishify

You know that saying about truth being stranger than fiction? Well, look no further than County Laois, where seachtar schoolgirls have set themselves up as arms dealers. BhÃ siad ag oibre le the C4 programme Dispatches ar feadh sÃ© mhÃ, and have had no problems purchasing “small arms and torture tools” and were even asked if they’d like to act as a loval agent by one company.

This is HI-larious.

And made even funnier, imo, because of the serious aspect. A total wtf! headline from The Irish Times Laois girls set up as arms dealers:

A spokeswoman for the Department of Trade said it was preparing export control legislation which would for the first time regulate arms brokering in Ireland and by Irish citizens abroad. [subs req'd]

On a less serious issue lets move on to Cheltenham. Where I’m sure half the country are already, and at a good portion of those not there are betting on it. But I don’t really care about that, I was more amused by this article^[1] on the commentator in England having to deal with some Irish ainmneacha capaill.

There was big disappointment for the Irish in the festival’s opening race when Cheltenham’s in-house commentator correctly pronounced the name of a horse called Ã“ Muircheartaigh … The remainder of the meeting was a triumph, not least for the language movement. DÃºn Doire (owned by a syndicate from Dunderry, Co Meath) won the fourth race, while Native Jack led an Irish 1-2-3-4 in the fifth.

The third-placed horse here was called Buailtes and Fadas, as the race-caller’s Gaeilge exam extended to grammar. [subs req'd]

For those of you wondering Builtes are little dots that used to be placed above letters in irish to indicate pronunciation. And a fada is the difference between a and Ã¡ and indicates a change in pronunciation. If you are interested check out this page on Wikipedia

Anyone want to guess how Ã“ Muircheartaigh is pronounced? I’d say it with 4 syllables.

Linknotes:

again in the Times so subs req’d ↩

Tags: Ã“ Muircheartaigh, lol, Mark Thomas, weapons dealing schoolkids

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Mar 01 2006

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it

Published by Fence under Shiny

EDIT: More pics can be found in this thread on Creative Ireland, I quite like this these few:

And I’ve stuck the original four I posted under the cut, just cause lots of pix = slow loading.

I know, I know, I said that was my last post on the Dublin riots. But remember when i said that about Serenity. I lied. Didn’t I?

Plus, how could I not post these photos. They are doing the Irish blogger rounds, and need to be promoted. Click on the thumbnails for bigger versions.

Tags: Dublin riots, lol

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Oct 22 2004